Sir Dave Brailsford was among members of staff given a corticosteroid like triamcinolone by the former Team Sky doctor at the centre of the British Cycling drugs storm.

As UK Anti-Doping chiefs revealed this week, there have been gaps in the record-keeping of Dr Richard Freeman and a large order of triamcinolone that the crisis-hit cycling team have been unable to explain.

On Friday, Sportsmail revealed that Freeman told UKAD investigators that he had administered triamcinolone — a drug that is banned in competition without a medical certificate — to staff and other non-athletes.

And Team Sky confirmed on Friday night that team principal Brailsford was among those to receive such a drug from Freeman.

Sky said Brailsford was injected with it following knee surgery.

'Whilst this is normally managed with oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, on one occasion a clinical decision was made to treat the symptoms within the joint with an intra-articular corticosteroid injection,' Brailsford told Sportsmail.

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'This was done with the appropriate assessment, informed consent and subsequent monitoring. The treatment was administered to me by our then team doctor, Dr Freeman, who is a musculoskeletal specialist, at the velodrome in line with good clinical practice.

'I appreciate it is an unusual step to issue personal medical information of this nature. I have only done so to ensure that any subsequent reporting is based on fact in light of the questions that have been put to me today.'

Dr Freeman gave members of staff a corticosteroid like triamcinolone

Earlier this week, UK Anti-Doping chief Nicole Sapstead told MPs an investigation into a medical package delivered to France for Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2011 had uncovered orders for large quantities of corticosteroid triamcinolone — which requires a medical exemption — but no audit of what happened to it.

Sapstead said the investigation was sparked by an allegation that the package ordered by Freeman contained triamcinolone, the medication the British Olympic hero used with a medical exemption before he won the 2012 Tour de France.

Wiggins and Team Sky have denied committing any doping offence. But when Freeman was asked to explain when and to whom the quantity of triamcinolone he ordered was administered, he is believed to have told UK Anti-Doping investigators that he had given the drug to patients other than cyclists, but was unable to provide them with any evidence.

It is believed he made the same claim to his former employers at Team Sky (he now works exclusively for British Cycling).